We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.

I really hope Ubuntu the doesn't become the "default Linux distribution". While I do like Ubuntu, I also equally like Fedora, Arch Linux, and GoboLinux. Choice is one of my favorite things about Linux. If hardware manufacturers start making drivers specifically for Ubuntu (i.e. they wouldn't work on other distros, at least without some work), then Canonical would practically control desktop Linux.